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Showing posts with label Supreme Privilege from The Intercept. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Supreme Privilege from The Intercept. Show all posts

Thursday, October 11, 2018

Like the rest of you, we have been glued to the Kavanaugh nightmare [not a tragedy because in tragedy the protagonist is a heroic character whose downfall is caused by moral weakness or human flaw - Kavanaugh was always morally weak and psychologically maladjusted ] for the past two weeks with no Mexican coverage of the the biggest perversion of justice to envelope the United States; a case of lies and corruption and a clear example of the complete failure of the United States to stand as a beacon of light in the world for anything moral.

How could anyone miss this story ? And, how can any American ever point to Mexico after this and say, "Look how corrupt their Justice System is" ? They cannot.

A slight twist in the saga and we will have to wait for the experts to weigh in before we get our hopes up - just another white wash ? And, why did he wait so long ?

"Chief
Justice John G. Roberts Jr. on Wednesday referred more than a dozen
judicial misconduct complaints filed recently against Brett M. Kavanaugh
to a federal appeals court in Colorado.

The 15
complaints, related to statements Kavanaugh made during his Senate
confirmation hearings, were initially filed with the federal appeals
court in Washington, where Kavanaugh served for the last 12 years before
his confirmation Saturday to the Supreme Court.

The
allegations center on whether Kavanaugh was dishonest and lacked
judicial temperament during his Senate testimony, according to people
familiar with the matter.

Last month, a judge on
the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit asked Roberts to refer
the complaints to another appeals court for review after determining
that they should not be handled by judges who served with Kavanaugh on
the D.C. appellate court.

In a letter Wednesday
to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit, Roberts said he
selected the court in Colorado to “accept the transfer and to exercise
the powers of a judicial council with respect to the identified
complaints and any pending or new complaints relating to the same
subject matter.”

The
Denver-based appeals court is led by Chief Judge Timothy M. Tymkovich,
the former solicitor general of Colorado who was nominated to the bench
by President George W. Bush. The 10th Circuit handled another recent
judicial misconduct case from Washington involving the former chief
judge of the District Court.

It is unclear what
will come of the review by the 10th Circuit. The judiciary’s rules on
misconduct do not apply to Supreme Court justices, and the 10th Circuit
could decide to dismiss the complaints as moot now that Kavanaugh has
joined the high court.

“There
is nothing that a judicial council could do at this point,” said Arthur
D. Hellman, a law professor at the University of Pittsburgh and expert
on the operation of federal courts.

He said it
was unprecedented for a new justice to face such a situation. Hellman
predicted that the 10th Circuit will likely close the case “because it
is no longer within their jurisdiction,” now that Kavanaugh has been
elevated to the Supreme Court.

The letter from Roberts does not mention Kavanaugh by name. On Saturday, Judge Karen LeCraft Henderson of the D.C. Circuit, who originally requested the transfer, said in a statement that the court had received complaints about Kavanaugh since the start of his confirmation hearings.

“The
complaints do not pertain to any conduct in which Judge Kavanaugh
engaged as a judge. The complaints seek investigations only of the
public statements he has made as a nominee to the Supreme Court of the
United States,” said Henderson, a Bush nominee.

Complaints
made against judges are usually handled by the chief judge. Henderson
took over from Chief Judge Merrick Garland, who recused himself from the
matter.

When complaints were filed in late
September and early October, Henderson dismissed some but concluded that
others were substantive enough to refer to another judicial panel for
investigation.

Roberts received the first
transfer request on Sept. 20, followed by four additional requests on
Sept. 26, Sept. 28, Oct. 3 and Oct. 5, according to his letter. He did
not immediately move to refer the filings to another appeals court.

People
familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity say
the allegations had already been widely discussed in the Senate and in
the public realm. Roberts did not see an urgent need for them to be
resolved by the judicial branch while he continued to review the
incoming complaints, they said.

The
complaints landed with Roberts because of his role as chief justice of
the United States, not because Kavanaugh is now a member of the Supreme
Court.

Such complaints are usually confidential unless the judicial council investigating issues a public report about its findings.

The
existence of misconduct complaints and the procedure can be disclosed,
according to the rules, “when necessary or appropriate to maintain
public confidence in the judiciary’s ability to redress misconduct or
disability.”

The public nature of a case last
year involving former 9th Circuit judge Alex Kozinski, who was accused
of sexual misconduct, was unusual. The chief judge of the 9th Circuit
asked Roberts to transfer the case for review after The Washington Post
reported allegations against Kozinski.

Roberts
referred the case to the appeals court in New York City. The judicial
council of that court publicly announced it was closing its
investigation because Kozinski had retired, saying that because he “can
no longer perform any judicial duties, he does not fall within the scope
of persons who can be investigated.”

The USA news for us at least drowned out for a time the terrible violence in Baja California, I'll return with those updates, opinions on the USMCA and more horror stories on Trump's zero tolerance immigration. Zeta reports that CESPT is in chaos, we have had water but the pressure is lower than it has ever been. I had my knee x-rayed, I have terrific Doctors but a horrible HMO and Provider (let me give you a clue...it is not Kaiser the meat factory) - even with a referral to an Orthopedic Specialist/Surgeon I have to wait six more weeks for an appointment, so we had to cancel a getaway trip because I can barely walk. Still taking the turmeric.